Trading Desk.

Trading Desk is the CarbonOS agent for buying, selling and retiring carbon credits, with an integrity score aligned with ICVCM principles for every credit evaluated. Because it sits inside CarbonOS, it starts from the company’s auditable inventory and links every purchase and retirement to inventory emissions, keeping the evidence ready for reports and audits.

It helps sustainability, finance and procurement teams choose credits on clear criteria and prove what was done with them. The voluntary carbon market traded about US$535 million in 2024, 29% less than in 2023 (Ecosystem Marketplace, 2025), and every credit needs evidence of quality before it supports a climate claim. The agent compares credits by integrity score and keeps proof of each retirement.

It starts from inventory emissions in Carbon Intelligence and assesses each credit against criteria from the ICVCM Core Carbon Principles, such as additionality, permanence, robust quantification and no double counting, to reach an integrity score. Buying, selling and retiring follow one workflow with every step recorded, and the Proof Engine keeps the lineage that links each retirement to the report that used it.

Its integrity score follows the ICVCM Core Carbon Principles, ten principles grouped under governance, emissions impact and sustainable impact (ICVCM, 2023). Programs approved by the ICVCM can apply the CCP label to approved categories of credits. Claims about how credits are used can follow the VCMI Claims Code of Practice, and the emissions inventory behind those claims follows the GHG Protocol.

Carbon Intelligence supplies the emissions that size purchases, and the Decarbonization Planner shows what can still be reduced before turning to credits. NBS brings together nature-based solutions projects, the Proof Engine keeps the evidence for each retirement and Compliance Hub carries that data into reports. The Investment Agent uses the same integrity scoring when a portfolio includes credits.

No. Trading Desk is infrastructure software: it organises buying, selling and retiring credits, with integrity scoring and evidence linked to the emissions inventory, and Carbonova does not act as a broker, dealer or exchange. Where carbon credits or allowances are regulated as financial instruments, trading follows that market’s rules and goes through its authorised venues and intermediaries.